[legal] Permission to use a modified OpenID logo

[colin.evans at nhs.net]

OpenID Team,

I work within Connecting for Health, which is part of the UK National Health
Service. I.e. we are a non-profit government organisation.

I am currently working on a project where we are intending to use the OpenID
protocols to implement a "Restricted Domain" ID service. Restricted means
that only a specific set of web systems will be able to connect to the ID
server, and this server will talk to only those clients.

We would like to give due credit to OpenID. However we would also like to
avoid confusing users by implying that our service is an open "all clients"
service like myOpenID.com, which it is not. Users would not be able to use
our IDs to log on to MySpace for example.

We were therefore considering using a modified version of the OpenID logo
(e.g. with changed colours) to identify our service. Initial reading on the
main OpenID.net web site indicated that use of names and logos (for
non-commercial purposes) was quite open, however this thread-
http://openid.net/pipermail/legal/2008-March/000129.html in the legal
archive seems to indicate that the trademark registration in the UK will be
far more restrictive. It specifically says that colours etc. cannot be
changed in the logo.


We would want to be sure that any use of an OpenID logo or other identifiers
was either within existing terms, or under an explicit agreement. Can
someone please come back to me to clarify whether we can proceed within some
element of your existing terms of use, or whether this requires further
discussions (and if so, who should we be talking to?)


Regards: Colin Evans
         NHS CFH Capability & Capacity

CONNECT DISCOVER SHARE eSpace today at
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